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    Re: Survival for a teacher in NYC
    Posted by: Kitty on 6/10/15
    () Comments

    On 6/10/15, m. cruz wrote:
    > On 6/08/15, Gteacher wrote:
    >> I love NYC and want to come home to teach. However, i
    > am
    >> mortified with the rents and cost of living and teachers
    >> salaries do not seem to be keeping up. Would love some
    >> feedback.
    >
    >
    > Yup, the salary doesn't allow you to get a decent place to
    > live. If it wasn't for my husband who works in a fortune 500,
    > I would still be living at home with my parents.

    Agreed. We shouldn't have to depend on Fortune 500 spouses
    (whose jobs are also often precarious/ unstable/ insecure) to live.

    We need to fight for affordable housing.

    Maybe we can start with an idea from this article in The
    Economist to keep rents down. It’s an idea supported by Nobel
    Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz:
    http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-value-tax


    Posts on this thread, including this one

  • Survival for a teacher in NYC, 6/08/15, by Gteacher.
  • Re: Survival for a teacher in NYC, 6/09/15, by vitali.
  • Re: Survival for a teacher in NYC, 6/10/15, by m. cruz.
  • Re: Survival for a teacher in NYC, 6/10/15, by Kitty.